Instadecember

One of these days I'll get around to downloading photos from my camera but for now I'll post a few of my Instagram shots from the last month. I think the few people that read this blog also follow me on Instagram so this is all old news to most of you.

The kids have been loving our new backyard and spending lots of time setting up all kinds of houses, hospitals, and stores in the woods:

Simon pulls up to everything and especially loves to watch his siblings out the windows:

We quickly discovered that there are lots of lizards around. The kids love to catch them. They also love to go on lizard hunts in our unfinished third floor after they discovered that the lizards like to hang out there too:

Our neighbor's chickens like to hang out in our driveway sometimes:

 I got busy putting up Christmas decorations right away which made the house feel less empty. Our friends gave us this advent before we left. Each day contained a note from a friend and it was so fun to read them throughout the month:

For the first time ever, we didn't have to rearrange and displace half of our furniture to get a Christmas tree to fit:

The girls turned the closet under the stairs into their secret hideout. They would hide in there to make all of their Christmas gifts and do their wrapping:

Doing some Christmas baking with Elsa:

And a random photo Ben sent me when he was playing with the kids upstairs one day: